April 20, 2011, 12:12 pm
I finally got some time to check out the official unveiling of the brand new Final Cut Pro X! I still consider myself new to the Final Cut world as I've only been using the software for about 3 years now. However, I think finally getting my own copy of FCP was one of the coolest and nerdiest days of my life.

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March 4, 2018, 7:35 am
With Christopher Nolan receiving his very first Oscar nomination for Best Director this year, we explore how the director's work in Dunkirk represents the apex of his career in more ways than one.

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March 3, 2018, 8:23 am
February was a busy month as the Editblog posted a QuickTip a day for the entire month. Some were Adobe Premiere Pro, some Final Cut Pro X, others Avid Media Composer … even a few DaVinci Resolve tips and various other things. Feel free to browser #28daysofQuickTips from 2009, 2011 and 2015 as well but some of those might be outdated. Here they are by category in alphabetical order by NLE...

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March 2, 2018, 5:25 am
There's something cathartic about drilling all the way down to the fundamentals. Not just the basic techniques, but the actual fundamentals, the bedrock of how something even functions in the first place, the reason why a series of edits can be used to tell a story rather than simply turning into abstract mush. It's also surprisingly challenging, like explaining what hands are.

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March 1, 2018, 1:13 pm
With this year’s round of Oscar campaigning finally over and the ballots all in, members of the film scoring community got to take a long, congratulatory breather with a celebratory concert at the Walt Disney Concert Hall on Wednesday night. Presented by the Academy, the Oscar Concert offered a stirring evening of music from the Los Angeles Philharmonic, featuring suites from each of this year’s five Oscar nominated original scores, most conducted by the composers themselves.

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March 1, 2018, 10:37 am
The 90th annual Academy Awards return March 4 — one year after an incorrectly announced best picture winner dominated post-show headlines. But this Oscars ceremony is significant not just for last year's slip-up: With the strong presence of African-American-created films like Get Out and Mudbound, it is also a year of firsts.

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March 1, 2018, 10:37 am
Before joining Trixter in 2017, Michael Wortmann worked in several studios such as Animal Logic, Cinesite, Weta Digital, Pixomondo and Chimney. As a VFX Supervisor, he took care of the effects of shows like GAME OF THRONES, STAR TREK: INTO DARKNESS, GOOD KILL and ATOMIC BLONDE.

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March 1, 2018, 6:53 am
The Annecy International Animated Film Festival is continuing its efforts to enhance the visibility of the animation industry’s female talent, following its all-woman jury in 2015 and MIFA’s hosting of the first Women In Animation (WIA) summit last year, as well as recently commissioning artists Regina Pessoa and Michèle Lemieux to create the poster art for the festival’s 2015 and 2016 editions respectively.

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March 1, 2018, 6:52 am
Vashi Nedomansky edited the film “6 Below: Miracle on the Mountain” which is the first feature film edited natively in 6K resolution. While visiting Sundance 2018, I had a chance to sit down with Vashi and talk through the creative and technical challenges of post-production on this film.